About Me

I'm a Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin in Liverpool, NY. I'm married to Joelle, who I adore. We've been married for almost 2 years already! Time has been flying by, we bought a house and ditched our apartment and are now living it up in Liverpool.

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I found out today that a friend of mine whom I haven’t seen or heard from in quite some time was arrested for various reasons. This friend made a few bad decisions sometime back and chose a direction for his life that I never would have expected from him. The two of us shared a common interest in computers and related technology and because of that we always got along quite well.

Having said that, I will be praying for him a lot over the next few weeks and I intend to continue praying for him for a long time. I’m hoping that his recent set of circumstances will result in someone getting through to him and helping him get his life back on track.

Please pray for him. I know you may not know who he is or even what his name is, but that’s not important. God knows him and knows all of the details surrounding his life these past couple of years. All that is required is that you mention him in your prayers and ask God to work in his situation.

I’ll post further information regarding this situation as it is given to me and deemed appropriate, in the meantime please keep praying.

This post is dedicated to new news. I will discuss this news in several categories. Enjoy.

My life: I miss home, Joelle, my family, and my dog. I’ve been back at school for almost 2 weeks now, just trying to slip into this semester’s routine and stay on top of my work.

Google Android Contest: As I’ve mentioned, a group of us from the lab have set out to build an application that will run on Google’s new Android platfrom (part of the Open Handset Alliance). Progress so far is very good and we’re actually hoping to have two separate submissions for the March 3rd-ish deadline.

Classes: They are going well. Most everything has been fairly straightforward so far but I’m expecting the workload to get somewhat heavier as the semester progresses. One thing I’m looking forward to is an idea Pat and I have for a project for our Computer and NetworkSecurity course. I’m not going to delve into too much detail here because I don’t want to leak information about it to anyone on the Clarkson campus (it could affect the results of our little experiment). If you don’t go to Clarkson and would like more details, let me know.

COSI: Maybe I should finish the time server project I started last semester. Hmmm…

K2CC: For those of you who don’t know, I’m a member of the Clarkson Amateur Radio Club. The club does a lot of neat projects, a few of which I get involved in here and there. Check out the wiki I set up. There’s a license exam coming up on February 2nd and I’m considering upgrading to a General Class license. I’ll let you know how it goes.

My Website: Recently added on the right hand side of my blog’s home page is a link to a calendar that shows my schedule. I’ll try to keep this thing as up to date as possible so that if you want to know when I’m available or what I’m up to you can check there. Also, I’m working on a photo browsing application (using some AJAX) that I hope to put up here at some point, I’ll let you know when that becomes available (it will probably be password-protected, so you’ll have to know me to check it out).

Clarkson: Is a mess. There’s construction vehicles all over and it’s become one huge mud/snow pit. Due to the abundance of dirt everywhere, maintenance has decided to use dirt to coat every slippery surface on campus. Not only does this make the surface somewhat less slippery, it contributes a great deal to the mud collection here at the University. This is as opposed to using salt which would effectively melt the ice and actually prevent a muddy mess, and that would be terrible.

Potsdam: It’s cold here (sorry, that’s not new news). This morning my computer informed me that it was -1. -1 is cold.

I think that will be all for today. I’ll try to post more often, I promise.